blood

• Ayuba daa bo salichee kɔriti omaŋa Job looked for a potsherd and scraped himself.
• Di kɔrita a nyirivɔɣu m-mali nyɔhinda. Don’t scratch your anus and then smell your hand.
• (bɛ) kɔri taŋkpaɣu puɣi bɛ zuɣuri (they) scooped up dust and poured it on their heads.
• (o ku) kana ti kɔri taŋkpaɣu duhiduhi gil’ li (he will not) come and raise siege-mounds against it (Jerusalem).
• bɛ gba ... piligimi kɔriti bɛ binkɔb’ shɛb’ ban gbahi dɔriti ka niriba dara they began to slaughter their animals that had diseases and people were buying.
• Bɛ daa kɔri piɛri mini naɣilahi mali sara hal ka so daa naan ku tooi lan kali ba They slaughtered sheep and bulls as sacrifices, so much that no one would have been able to count them.
• ti ŋmanila piɛ’ shɛb’ bɛ ni kɔrita we are like sheep that they are slaughtering.
• Ŋun kɔriti niriba je ni o dɔni yɛliga. One who slaughters people does not want to lie on his back.

to scratch an itching place

• Ayuba daa bo salichee kɔriti omaŋa Job looked for a potsherd and scraped himself.
• Di kɔrita a nyirivɔɣu m-mali nyɔhinda. Don’t scratch your anus and then smell your hand.
• (bɛ) kɔri taŋkpaɣu puɣi bɛ zuɣuri (they) scooped up dust and poured it on their heads.
• (o ku) kana ti kɔri taŋkpaɣu duhiduhi gil’ li (he will not) come and raise siege-mounds against it (Jerusalem).
• bɛ gba ... piligimi kɔriti bɛ binkɔb’ shɛb’ ban gbahi dɔriti ka niriba dara they began to slaughter their animals that had diseases and people were buying.
• Bɛ daa kɔri piɛri mini naɣilahi mali sara hal ka so daa naan ku tooi lan kali ba They slaughtered sheep and bulls as sacrifices, so much that no one would have been able to count them.
• ti ŋmanila piɛ’ shɛb’ bɛ ni kɔrita we are like sheep that they are slaughtering.
• Ŋun kɔriti niriba je ni o dɔni yɛliga. One who slaughters people does not want to lie on his back.

to scratch (as a door (animals do))

to scoop, scrape up collect or take (earth, mud, grain, granulated substance) in large quantities

slaughter [many]